# Common Sense Media Parental Content Rating Scraper (`jungle_synthesizer/commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper`) Actor Scrapes Common Sense Media for parental content ratings across movies and TV shows. Extracts CSM age recommendations, overall ratings, community scores (parents & kids), and per-domain content scores (violence, language, sex, drugs, consumerism) for ~55k+ reviews. - **URL**: https://apify.com/jungle\_synthesizer/commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [BowTiedRaccoon](https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer) (community) - **Categories:** Education, AI - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per event This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Common Sense Media Parental Content Rating Scraper Scrape [Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org) for structured parental content ratings across movies and TV shows. Common Sense Media is the single authoritative source for age-appropriate content guidance used by parents, schools, and streaming platforms worldwide. ### What you get Each record contains: - **Title** and media type (movie or TV) - **CSM age recommendation** — the editor's recommended minimum age (e.g., `9`) - **CSM overall rating** — editorial star rating 1–5 - **Parents say rating** — community star rating from parent reviewers 1–5 - **Kids say rating** — community star rating from child reviewers 1–5 - **One-line verdict** — the editor's brief summary sentence - **Content domain scores** (JSON, each 0–5): `positive_messages`, `positive_role_models`, `violence`, `sex`, `language`, `consumerism`, `drinking_drugs_smoking`, `diverse_representations` - **Genre**, release year, runtime, MPAA/ESRB rating - **Review summary** from meta description ### Use cases - **Family streaming apps** — filter content by age-appropriateness and domain scores - **EdTech / parental control products** — build curated content catalogs with safety metadata - **Brand safety vendors** — classify media by content domains for ad-placement decisions - **Kids content recommenders** — rank titles by positive messages and role models - **Research** — analyze content trends across decades of movie/TV releases ### How it works The actor walks the [Common Sense Media reviews sitemap](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/reviews/sitemap.xml), filters to `/movie-reviews/` and `/tv-reviews/` URLs (~55,000+ reviews), and scrapes each detail page using Cheerio. Numeric content domain scores come from the Drupal data layer embedded in every page; community ratings are parsed from the rendered HTML. No proxy required — the site is server-rendered and publicly accessible. ### Input | Parameter | Type | Default | Description | |-----------|------|---------|-------------| | `maxItems` | integer | 10 | Maximum number of reviews to scrape. Set to `0` for all reviews (~55,000+). | | `startUrls` | array | `[]` | Optional list of specific review URLs to scrape directly (e.g., `https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/spirited-away`). If empty, uses the sitemap. | ### Output ```json { "title": "Spirited Away", "media_type": "movie", "csm_url": "https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/spirited-away", "age_recommendation": 9, "csm_overall_rating": 5, "parents_say_rating": 5, "kids_say_rating": 4, "one_line_verdict": "Magnificent movie with scary creatures and a strong heroine.", "content_domains": "{\"positive_messages\":4,\"positive_role_models\":4,\"violence\":3,\"sex\":1,\"language\":0,\"consumerism\":0,\"drinking_drugs_smoking\":2,\"diverse_representations\":4}", "genre": "Anime", "release_year": 2002, "runtime_minutes": 125, "mpaa_esrb_rating": "PG", "review_summary": "Magnificent movie with scary creatures and a strong heroine. Read Common Sense Media's Spirited Away review, age rating, and parents guide." } ```` ### Notes - Content domain scores follow the CSM 0–5 scale: `0` = not present, `5` = extreme/pervasive - `content_domains` is returned as a JSON string for schema compatibility — parse it with `JSON.parse()` in your downstream code - The sitemap covers ~55,000+ reviews across movies, TV, books, games, podcasts, and apps; the actor filters to movies and TV only - A full scrape of all ~55,000 reviews takes approximately 3–4 hours at default concurrency # Actor input Schema ## `sp_intended_usage` (type: `string`): Please describe how you plan to use the data extracted by this crawler. ## `sp_improvement_suggestions` (type: `string`): Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements. ## `sp_contact` (type: `string`): Provide your email address so we can get in touch with you. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of reviews to scrape. Set to 0 for all reviews (~55,000+). Default: 10. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Optional list of specific Common Sense Media review URLs to scrape (e.g. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/spirited-away). If empty, scrapes from the sitemap up to maxItems. ## Actor input object example ```json { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "maxItems": 10, "startUrls": [] } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "maxItems": 10, "startUrls": [] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "maxItems": 10, "startUrls": [], } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "maxItems": 10, "startUrls": [] }' | apify call jungle_synthesizer/commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jungle_synthesizer/commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Common Sense Media Parental Content Rating Scraper", "description": "Scrapes Common Sense Media for parental content ratings across movies and TV shows. Extracts CSM age recommendations, overall ratings, community scores (parents & kids), and per-domain content scores (violence, language, sex, drugs, consumerism) for ~55k+ reviews.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "cIvI6FhpbhGU4I6S4" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-jungle_synthesizer-commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-jungle_synthesizer-commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-jungle_synthesizer-commonsensemedia-parental-content-rating-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "maxItems" ], "properties": { "sp_intended_usage": { "title": "What is the intended usage of this data?", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Please describe how you plan to use the data extracted by this crawler." }, "sp_improvement_suggestions": { "title": "How can we improve this crawler for you?", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements." }, "sp_contact": { "title": "Contact Email", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Provide your email address so we can get in touch with you." }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max Items", "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of reviews to scrape. Set to 0 for all reviews (~55,000+). Default: 10.", "default": 10 }, "startUrls": { "title": "Start URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Optional list of specific Common Sense Media review URLs to scrape (e.g. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/spirited-away). If empty, scrapes from the sitemap up to maxItems.", "items": { "type": "string" } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```